Robert Frost was a famous poet in both English and American culture. His works often deals things that are ponderous. He was a well educated man that went to Harvard. Besides being a poet he was also a educator.
This poem is divided into 4 stanzas. It has rhyming first, second, and fourth lines. Except the final stanza in which it has all four lines that rhyme. It is not a poem that has a special name, such as a sonnet. This poem uses personification by saying the horse is thinking and that the woods are lonely, dark, and deep. This poem also has a little bit of repetition. The repetition is at the end when it say: and miles to go before I sleep twice.
This poem might sound like it is just a peaceful snowy evening, but it's really not. I think that this poem is talking about a good place to die, but the speaker must not die for he has a lot of promises and work to be done before that. Although they might truly want to go to a better place there are things that must happen before he can go to sleep for eternity. The poem also gives off a sense of uncertainty or confusion at the beginning.
I like this poem because it deals with being at the ideal place to go or your heaven. That is a peaceful feeling when you are in an amazingly beautiful location where you could spend hours just looking. Although at the end the speaker snaps back into reality and remembers all he must do.
Nick Johnson
"Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening"
Whose woods these are I think I know,
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lonely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Analysis
Robert Frost was a famous poet in both English and American culture. His works often deals things that are ponderous. He was a well educated man that went to Harvard. Besides being a poet he was also a educator.
This poem is divided into 4 stanzas. It has rhyming first, second, and fourth lines. Except the final stanza in which it has all four lines that rhyme. It is not a poem that has a special name, such as a sonnet. This poem uses personification by saying the horse is thinking and that the woods are lonely, dark, and deep. This poem also has a little bit of repetition. The repetition is at the end when it say: and miles to go before I sleep twice.
This poem might sound like it is just a peaceful snowy evening, but it's really not. I think that this poem is talking about a good place to die, but the speaker must not die for he has a lot of promises and work to be done before that. Although they might truly want to go to a better place there are things that must happen before he can go to sleep for eternity. The poem also gives off a sense of uncertainty or confusion at the beginning.
I like this poem because it deals with being at the ideal place to go or your heaven. That is a peaceful feeling when you are in an amazingly beautiful location where you could spend hours just looking. Although at the end the speaker snaps back into reality and remembers all he must do.
Source
"Robert Frost." 2014. The Biography.com website. Apr 30 2014 http://www.biography.com/people/robert-frost-20796091.